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Slackware: 2023-038-02 Critical: Xorg-Server Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated xorg-server packages for Slackware focus on rectifying a major security flaw, promoting both system integrity and user safety.
New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. [PATCH] Xi: fix potential use-after-free in DeepCopyPointerClasses. Also merged another patch to prevent crashes when using a compositor with the NVIDIA blob. Thanks to mdinslage, willysr, and Daedra. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0494 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-6_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. [PATCH] Xi: fix potential use-after-free in DeepCopyPointerClasses. Also merged another patch to prevent crashes when using a compositor with the NVIDIA blob. Thanks to mdinslage, willysr, and Daedra. For more information, see:

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security advisory security issue update critical slackware xorg-server

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated packages for Slackware 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

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Slackware 15.0 packages: 5d21bb371fe20a30156200f28efb1243 xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz f007492f9168b74aa2006bd4a6ef90e9 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 033eebe14a30edc9c0426ede6f047f6a xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 9bf686099cf4b43213be7399822ef0af xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-i586-7_slack15.0.txz 1440f5cb366dc3ef621e8dabcc87c95e xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-i586-6_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: 49c99e299ec8e93035f3d54f6228caeb xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz 479ea2d2a4791eb2ee2b4d6888272c45 xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz 9e35b75294859e2b36b6caad5e980c66 xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz 53bb58c3f345e362ac19ec5109368927 xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-7_slack15.0.txz 99b4585acb18fd98170ddac621273341 xorg-server-xwayland-21.1.4-x86_64-6_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 5dacee09beed294e8c78ca1e5d1fee52 x/xorg-server-21.1.7-i586-1.txz 951206c54fb01cf836c743faf675a6f4 x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.7-i586-1.txz 60d0363ed088c21910cfb062a247ffe0 x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.7-i586-1.txz 838cddc33166c72bf81d0cb2e2264526 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.7-i586-1.txz dfe38fd041e52e7fe9b9f8a560e7a7bb x/xorg-server-xwayland-22.1.8-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 10d45e3134cd856cbb91da04ebb48096 x/xorg-server-21.1.7-x86_64-1.txz 23d5bebcf4fc863b84c1cda4c7a7d618 x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.7-x86_64-1.txz 017084cb46ec791d8e835d035cd20f8b x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.7-x86_64-1.txz 0b6a5f910b045c9fd9d3b7ec511151a6 x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.7-x86_64-1.txz f767a6ef45af1dc92be64410ecc347fe x/xorg-server-xwayland-22.1.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg xorg-server-*.txz

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